deranger
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
There’s nothing stopping anybody
I assume you can do it by hand, right now, in a few seconds then?
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
I wasn’t the biggest fan, thanks for the recommendations. I’ll give em a shot.
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
I assume just via the normal desktop site? I tried that back when I very first started with Lemmy but I quickly switched to using the Voyager web app just because I like the app features and especially the post layout. I might have to give the default web interface another shot as I only tried way back when I first switched over.
- Comment on YSK if you browse Lemmy on desktop, the Lemmy Universal Link Switcher script makes browsing between instances significantly less annoying 1 week ago:
Out of curiosity, how many browse on desktop?
I’ve been using Lemmy since the API exodus and only ever substantially used wefwef/Voyager the whole time.
It would be cool if something like this could also be incorporated into the apps because it sucks when someone puts a link that doesn’t correctly use your instance to see the post they’re sharing, instead opening a browser to display the post.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
Just use it all the time including turn only lanes. Deal with the clicking, it’s fine.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 week ago:
Dope. Looks like I’ll have to give Linux a shot once again. Worked fine on an old ultra book I had, but every time I tried on my desktop I’d fail at the GPU drivers step.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 1 week ago:
What’s installing Nvidia drivers like?
This has killed my install and interest in Linux every time I’ve tried it.
- Comment on Could you grind up a loaf of bread back into a flour and make a new loaf of bread? 1 week ago:
With enough energy you certainly could, even if that meant breaking everything down to their constituent parts chemically and doing stuff like reconstructing proteins from amino acids.
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 1 week ago:
That’s a great question.
At first I thought it’d be a wash. The heat absorbed by vaporizing the water in the swamp cooler will be released onto the evaporator coils of the AC, so that’s a net zero energy transfer.
However, air is not good at conducting heat. This water evaporation/condensation cycle might transfer heat from the air to the evaporator coils of the AC better.
You are going to have additional water and electricity costs from running the swamp cooler though, so I really don’t know.
- Comment on Cheers lads 1 week ago:
Weed
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 1 week ago:
They’re both about price in my opinion.
Personally I don’t feel the console itself is that bad, but $80 Nintendo games, that never go on sale, can fuck right off.
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 2 weeks ago:
Big Xbox One release vibes.
“Fortunately we have a product for people who aren’t able to stay connected; it’s called Xbox 360” - Don Mattrick, Microsoft’s President of Interactive Entertainment Business
- Comment on Is there a portable swamp cooler with a window hose like air conditioners have? 2 weeks ago:
There’s no point as a swamp cooler does not have heat to reject.
Also, swamp coolers are only effective in very dry environments. Unless you’re in the desert it’s going to make it feel warmer by raising humidity significantly. A large part of why AC makes it feel nicer is reducing humidity, which allows sweat to work better.
- Comment on Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, might be switching to Jellyfin eventually, but I want to milk my lifetime plex pass for a bit longer. The enshittification hasn’t reached annoying levels for me yet. I’d have to talk all my non-nerd friends through setting Jellyfin up as well, so there’s a significant effort barrier to switching there.
- Comment on Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying 2 weeks ago:
Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 3 weeks ago:
If you really want to see this type of content you can easily find it with the tiniest amount of motivation.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 3 weeks ago:
Nowhere in the article does it say anything like that. It’s pretty straight forward reporting - the guy ran some websites and distributed pirated books and software, and hacked a few websites. No judgements are passed, it’s just factual information.
- Comment on Breaking - Trump Resigns! 3 weeks ago:
Flightradar24 had a notification that the Concorde was flying again, first thing I saw this morning and I completely fell for it.
- Comment on Embracer studio Eidos-Montreal has laid off 75 employees 3 weeks ago:
I hate
embracereraser group, fuck em for cancelling the Deus Ex game. - Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Not knocking people’s choices, it just wasn’t for me. If math in reality isn’t math in education, it’s even better that I left.
I’ll still contend math is much more elegant than physics or engineering, though. There’s no e^I*pi + 1 = 0 equivalent for either.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Respect. Physics is way up there in terms of hard science nerd cred.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s just fundamentally ugly to me and that really turned me off. Rounding doesn’t help, that’s like turning the lights off for sex. Engineering is still very cool to me, and I have huge respect for those who do it, but I’d never have made it. It’s physics but even further perverted by reality. Math was beautiful to me because of how “pure” it was. Just straight logic, divorced from the messy world we live in. Tidy coefficients and elegant derivations.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Numbers like that are why I quit majoring in mechanical engineering. Physics took the beauty of math and made it ugly.
You knew something was wrong in calculus when you got a fucked up coefficient that wasn’t a nice number.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 weeks ago:
Spun is also fucked up on hallucinogens, like at a festival when you take too much acid.
- Comment on Big Marijuana don't want you to know... 3 weeks ago:
You didn’t discover this as a child? Shit, spinning around was the first high I ever had, followed a few years later by hyperventilation.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
I’m aware. I’m also a medical lab scientist and the entire thing screamed bullshit from the start, not necessarily due to the feasibility of testing on small volumes, but things like calibration and quality control.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
The most bizarre part of the Theranos scandal is that any medical lab tech/scientist could have told you, right from the initial pitch, the entire thing was a massive scam. There was literally no reason to ever think this technology was feasible and a mountain of reasons it wasn’t.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 3 weeks ago:
I know you said read, but the reason this came to mind was from rewatching an excellent Down The Rabbit Hole video recently. It’s a good one, 24 minutes long and no annoying bullshit or filler. The concept of social density is mentioned in the video, which isn’t something I saw reading the wiki on it or during a quick search.
Side note, these experiments are what inspired the Rats of NIMH books which you may be familiar with.
- Comment on Since they wouldn't understand phones, I'd just tell them I was speaking to demons. 3 weeks ago:
Makes me think about the concept of social density in the mouse utopia experiments. It wasn’t population density per se that caused the decline of the mouse society, it was the inability to escape social situations.
- Comment on What's the problem sweetie? You've barely touched your eggsicle 3 weeks ago:
Fantastic post workout snack, hydration and high quality protein.
